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The Project Winter alpha starts soon, so sign up for a chance to test out this multiplayer survival game in which some players are working against you! Well, not that any of you care but I am neck deep into a new semester of teaching (yeah, I teach at university on the side). I am […]

The Do Not Feed the Monkeys closed beta test fires up today , Sept 18, and you can sign up to participate! A few days ago Death by Beta received an email from Alawar Premium about a new game they are publishing called Do Not Feed the Monkeys. More importantly, the Do Not Feed the […]

Alawar Premium and Cheerdealers have just launched the I’m not a Monster open beta, so try out this retro sci-fi tactical game of monsters versus humans! Just last week we told you about the Beholder 2 beta test that Alawar Premium is running. Today (or, technically, yesterday) Alawar announced that the I’m not a Monster […]

The Beholder 2 beta test is underway, and you can sign up to test out this sequel to the original dystopian strategy game! I apologize because this post is about two days too late due to some confusion I had with emails sent to Death by Beta. In any case, I wanted to let you […]

Juvty Worlds is running the early access test for Melting World Online, and you can grab a Steam key in our Melting World Online early access key giveaway! The good folks over at Juvty Worlds have always been very generous with giving away keys to their games. This post is once again proof of that […]

Team Jolly Roger is back with more planet crushing action in the Worbital beta test that is currently underway, and you can request a beta key to join in! Well, golly, it seems not all that long ago that we were telling everyone about the Interplanetary test that the good folks at Team Jolly Roger […]

There is another Blazing Core alpha is set to fire up on April 20, and we have a bunch more Blazing Core alpha keys for Steam up for grabs so snag one while you can! Well let’s see…it was only two weeks ago that we gave away a bunch of keys to the twelfth Blazing […]

There is one more Starfall Tactics open alpha event before the game moves into beta testing, so give this real-time space fleet tactics game a whirl on February 21! Well it appears that the good folks over at Snowforged Entertainment really want Starfall Tactics to remain as one of the most reported games on Death […]

The second Gears of Eden alpha test is arriving soon, and you can sign up for a chance to help test this sandbox exploration and survival game! First off, sorry for us being MIA recently. Both Phil and I are swamped with our day jobs (I am working two of them!), so things have been […]

The Laser League open beta hits this coming Friday, January 26, so get ready to test out this Tron-esque team-based PvP arena game! I actually received an email notification about this two days ago but I have been indisposed until today so I couldn’t post about it. Nonetheless, here we go! The Laser League open […]

We have a bunch of Next Up Hero beta keys to give away, so grab one quickly to test out this new 2D adventure game with an interesting co-op mechanic! First off, Happy New Year to everyone! So a couple of days ago, Chris Bashaar from Aspyr emailed Death by Beta asking if we would […]

The Ghostly Horizon beta is set to start on December 15, and you can sign up for a chance to test out this incoming team-based ghost shooter! Back in October I told you about the “sort-of” Ghostly Horizon beta registration. Well, according to an email Death by Beta received yesterday the “proper” Ghostly Horizon beta […]

Check out the K’NOSSOS demo from Svarun Entertainment and consider supporting the Kickstarter for this surreal looking sci-fi point’n’click adventure game! Today is going to be a bit of a Kickstarter demo sort of week. This is because I have received some emails this past weekend regarding several different Kickstarter projects that feature demos, which […]

The Ghostly Horizon beta test will hit in December, and you can follow the game on Steam now in order to get an invite to the beta test when it arrives! During the night, Death by Beta received an email from Markus Boberg and the Ghostly Horizon team regarding their incoming game, you guessed it, […]

KK Game Studio is running the Freeman: Star Edge open alpha, and you can help test out this new open world sci-fi RPG ahead of the game’s Kickstarter! So this early this morning we received an email from Tina Khristi over at KK Game Studio, and Tina was kind enough to share some info on […]

Cubit Games is ready to launch the Gears of Eden alpha, and you can still enroll for a chance to test out this sci-fi survival and exploration game! Back in December of last year, I mentioned that the Gears of Eden alpha registration was underway. Well, hopefully you signed up back then because it appears […]